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De Wereld Draait Door
Dutch television show
Summary
Dutch television show
Field
Value
image
De_Wereld_Draait_Door-studio.jpg
caption
The DWDD studio
genre
Talk show, entertainment
director
Dieuwke Wynia
presenter
Matthijs van Nieuwkerk
country
Netherlands
language
Dutch
num_seasons
location
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
runtime
Circa 53 minutes
company
BNNVARA
channel
NPO 3 (2005–2013)
NPO 1 (2014–2020)
first_aired
last_aired
NPO 1 (2014–2020)
De Wereld Draait Door (; DWDD) was an early-evening talk show on Dutch television, broadcast every weekday at 7:00 p.m. on NPO 1. It was the Netherlands' longest-running, regularly scheduled TV entertainment show and had the second-highest viewing figures of any Dutch television program, beaten only by the main evening news at 8.00 p.m. The title meant "The World Keeps Turning", or figuratively "The World Is Going Mad". The show, created by Dieuwke Wynia and produced by BNNVARA, was discontinued after the last episode on 27 March 2020.
Content
A person with a [[laserdisc]] player and a television. This image was used in ''De Wereld Draait Door'' to end the part "De Televisie Draait Door"
The chat, conducted at a large table, was hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and a rotating guest co-host. Guests were politicians, celebrities, artists, or simply people involved in projects or organizations that were topics of interest. The show contained a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment. Frequent guests and panelists included Jan Mulder, Yvon Jaspers, Halina Reijn, Giel Beelen, Mathijs Bouman, Sylvana Simons, Marc-Marie Huijbregts and André van Duin. House poet Nico Dijkshoorn had a weekly column in the show, usually on Wednesday.
Each show had a live performance of a band in the studio. The show's closing sequence was Lucky TV, a small movie clip that featured a parody of news with changed voice-over text added to the video. One of those ending clips, where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were singing a duet during a presidential debate, became a viral phenomenon. From 2014, Dutch Eurovision Song Contest entries were premiered on the show.
DWDD University
DWDD University was a series of special episodes, in which a professional expert in a certain area held a one-and-a-half hour long lecture to a general audience. It commenced in 2012 with a lecture by then IAS director Robbert Dijkgraaf about the Big Bang.
The following speakers have contributed to DWDD university:
Date
Speaker
Subject
Location
Viewership
17 May 2012
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Big Bang
Ronde Lutherse Kerk (Church)
991,000
16 November 2012
Robbert Dijkgraaf
The smallest (microcosms)
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
1,056,000
26 April 2013
Alexander Klöpping
De Wereld van Klöpping 1.0 (the past of Silicon Valley)
MC Theater
586,000
3 May 2013
Alexander Klöpping
De Wereld van Klöpping 2.0 (the present of Silicon Valley)
466,000
10 May 2013
Alexander Klöpping
De Wereld van Klöpping 3.0 (the future of Silicon Valley)
536,000
29 November 2013
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Albert Einstein theories
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
859,000
13 December 2013
Cows
725,000
28 November 2014
Robbert Dijkgraaf
Infinity
1,104,000
12 December 2014
Freek Vonk
Poison
1,462,000
30 April 2015
Erik Scherder
Human brain (part 1): De Aanknop
Podium Mozaïek
7 May 2015
Erik Scherder
Human brain (part 2): Bloedstollend
14 May 2015
Erik Scherder
Human brain (part 3): Het Geheugen
28 May 2015
Twan Huys
DWDD Summerschool: Bill and Hillary Clinton
858,000
4 June 2015
Gijs Scholten van Aschat
DWDD Summerschool: William Shakespeare
645,000
11 June 2015
Claudia de Breij
DWDD Summerschool: Het Nederlandse lied (Dutch song)
925,000
18 June 2015
Wim Pijbes
DWDD Summerschool: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
998,000
25 June 2015
Mart Smeets
DWDD Summerschool: American big four: baseball, ice hockey, basketball and American Football
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